origami &pictures ranjeet on 20 Jul 2008 10:42 pm
Inspiration Strikes
So, I went to see The Dark Knight yesterday at an IMAX theater up in Dublin. Stupid story, in fact. I bought the tickets a week in advance, and still wasn’t able to get any Friday showings (on IMAX). So, on Saturday, Freshman Dan and I walk in, see the sign pointing us to IMAX auditorium #21, and wait in the long ass line to get in. After about five minutes, though, we overhear someone in line talking about how surprised they were this was the line for normal showing, since she figured there would only be a line for the IMAX showing. This is when we realized that while we were standing in a random line, the last seats in the IMAX theater were probably being taken up. Our stupidity unmasked, we rushed over…and found ourselves sitting in the front row of the movie theater. Not the best place to watch a movie on a 5 story tall screen.
But I digress. The movie was excellent, very intense, with some tremendous performances. And it was also inspiring. Not to spoil it at all, but Batman ends the movie taking on a heavy burden, trying to be the hero that he feels Gotham needs him to be. Similarly, I feel that I have been letting the Internet down. I have been hoping that a version of Harvey Dent would arise, so that I could be relieved of my duties, but it is clear that no one is stepping up, so I must, once again, save the Internet.
Well, the past two weeks I have been busy, don’t worry about that. Here’s the proof :
on 27 Jul 2008 at 7:28 pm 1.sparker said …
I got reserved tickets to Boardman for midnight on Thursday and we showed up a whole 10 minutes early and strolled into our awesome seats. No one even looked at our tickets. Oh, and I don’t care that it wasn’t IMAX, since I don’t like to throw up during movies.
on 27 Jul 2008 at 8:36 pm 2.ranjeet said …
I saw TDK again this weekend, on a normal screen. It’s still a great movie, but it lacks the presence of IMAX. After reading this article in Wired about the making of the movie, I was really pumped about seeing in IMAX, and I have to admire the director’s dedication to the format. Anyways, the opening Gotham (i.e. Chicago) panorama (see here for the opening six minutes) goes from breathtaking on the IMAX to just a run-of-the-mill helicopter shot on the smaller screen.
on 28 Jul 2008 at 9:54 am 3.sparker said …
This isn’t convincing me that I should have seen it in IMAX.
on 28 Jul 2008 at 1:34 pm 4.ranjeet said …
Oh, there’s one other thing. Converting from IMAX to normal film involved cutting the height of the film. So, there are times when in the normal version of the film, you only see the face of an actor/actress, while in the IMAX version, you see their entire head. In all those cases, the actor or actress has a really funny hairstyle. And sometimes a really trippy tie.